[1] After commissioning she spent her career in Home Waters, the Baltic, North America and the Mediterranean on trade protection duties.

[2] New owner, Bristol based James Pearce, refitted the vessel and entered her into the transatlantic slave trade.

[3] Blandford was the second named vessel since it was used for a 24-gun sixth rate launched at Woolwich on 29 October 1711 and lost with all hands in the Bay of Biscay on 23 March 1719.

[Note 3] She was under the command of Captain George Burrish, RN for service in the North Sea in May 1732, She went to the Portuguese coast in 1734, then back to the English Channel in 1735 on to Georgia in 1738 and Jamaica 1739–40.

Of the 468 slaves embarked during Blandford’s first and only known slavery voyage, only around 400 survived to be landed ashore in Kingston, colony of Jamaica.